Rape is a different class of crime.

I am so sorry. But hopefully, with more of these stories coming to light and horrifying even those who aren't rape victims, there will be a shift away from a society that's safer for rapists than their victims.

It's not that surprising. Boys are trained to see women's bodies as toys. When they get old enough for porn, there's a distressing tendency for the sex they see to be quite violent and degrading to the women involved. This story neatly encapsulates everything that is meant when people say rape culture.

I mean, you could also teach the son you have that he should treat sex partners as people. "I just did not pay attention to her much" really sums up the problem here.

But the fact that investigators and lawyers ask those questions basically proves Omar's point. The response to a rape report as it is currently set up leads immediately to a line of questioning that clouds the issue because consent doesn't leave physical evidence, nor does lack of consent. If we could recognize that…

If you want to be understood, you have to take a harder look at your own language. Phrases like "make it easier for rapists" and "the right to get black out drunk and have nothing happen to you" are getting in your way. Because what that implies is that there is a hierarchy of victims. If you should have known better,…

Uh, no. I'm not assuming that. As you can see, nowhere in my comment to I suggest that either A) I myself was aware of the term or B) I believe everyone else is or should be.
Not everyone regularly reads or contributes to discussions about female characters. But it IS telling that so many of these comments are stating…

And that subject is "I just discovered this concept! And therefore have literally nothing to say except that this is new to me!"

*Has emotional explosion over Johanna

And come on, like the thrill of saying it didn't make the effort totally worth it. Don't let his on the surface detachedness fool you—he's kvelling!

I could not BELIEVE that the movie ended with Harry just insouciantly having no wand at all. That is the only HP movie I haven't rewatched.

I think that the 3rd book is basically an outline for the movies. I loved seeing the gamemaker's point of view in the first movie, and all the excruciating detail of visiting district 11 in the second one. I really did not care for the book, but now I am very excited to see what they do with it.

Could it be that this attitude that language that actually names anatomy is dirty when it's about female anatomy is somehow connected to the idea that female anatomy needs to be policed? Could it be that this double standard reflects the sexism without which there would be no objections to contraception? Or is it more…

Or produces 98% of it.

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OK? Not celebrating the dudes is a pretty low baseline.

No, I think they'll take any money they can get just like any other media company. What I'm saying is that I doubt that all the people angrily tweeting A) are current subscribers at all B) are going to actually cancel, for those who are subscribers. And the ones who DO cancel are the lowest common denominator, which…

He is a media personality. That means he is his own brand, and he fucked it up. Celebrities, especially D-list ones like this, have always been subjected to loss of work due to earning a shitty image. This isn't setting a precedent. How many movies is Mel Gibson in anymore?

Fair enough. But those dudes made a decision to get their dicks out and wait their turn, and the most anybody is talking about them is to point out how unlikely it is that they enjoyed it.

It's true but I appreciate that their standards are high enough to fire him, rather than trot out the typical "Well, that's just the kinda in your face stuff that 1 million listeners love! It's not for everybody, but you can't please everybody" kinda shit that companies fall back on when their is pushback against…